The First DLC to Fallout 4: A Review of Automatron

The first DLC to Fallout 4, Automatron, was released last week under Bethesda's newly raised season pass pricing, but it is also available individually for $10. As with most games, it can be considered a glorified professionally crafted mod that expands the game's play modestly but doesn't go too crazy. This expansion kit adds an evil villain, known only as the Mechanist, to the Commonwealth and sets up a few new dungeon environments littered with abandoned buildings, robots, Raiders, and other familiar elements.

The storyline accompanying Automatron is reasonably compelling if short, serving as a vessel for the introduction of new robot building mechanics for the post-DLC game world. After saving a caravan from robot onslaught and overthrowing the Mechanist, players are granted access to robot schematics for all of their favorite robots using appropriate perks and supplies. With these resources, they can craft robots that function as settlers or companions with varying abilities, deadliness, and weapons, including face lasers.

As with any Bethesda game, bugs are present throughout Automatron, particularly with regards to pathfinding issues with robot companions and problems where robots would blow their own arms off by using weapons too close to solid objects. However, these issues do not detract significantly from the overall experience. It is likely that modders will recreate this functionality in the future and make it available through free mods, which may offer alternative solutions or improvements.

Despite its familiarity, Automatron does add some variety to the game and offers an enjoyable, albeit brief, playthrough for a new type of dungeon. The larger edition of the DLC includes robot crafting, which provides a lot of options and further specialization for character development since companions are now also customizable. Overall, Automatron is a solid addition to the Fallout 4 game, making it worth getting for fans of Die Hard who want to see extra elements and possibly the accompanying side quest.

For casual players or those who prefer waiting until sales before purchasing DLCs, it would be suggested considering waiting until a sale. For now, there's a mod available on Nexus mods called "Robot Home Defense" that can help replicate some of Automatron's functionality without the need for the full DLC experience. The review was written by staffer Michael Kars and is published on the website; you can check out his work by following the link in the description below.

If you want to support the creators directly, check out their Patreon page for more information on how to do so. We appreciate your feedback and hope you'll continue watching our channel for more Fallout 4 modding content, including discussions about other robot mods and various types of mods that can expand the experience in new ways. Thank you for watching, and we'll see you all next time.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthe first DLC to Fallout 4 Shi last week under bethesda's newly raised season pass pricing but is also available individually of course the first expansion kit is named automatron and is available independently at $10 or as part of that season bayin and as with most games it's effectively a glorified professionally crafted mod that expands Bas play modestly but doesn't go too crazy automatron adds an evil villain sort of a bbeg to the Commonwealth and he's known only as the mechanist equal parts ambiguous evil sounding and very corny If we're honest and he is crafting custom robots to terrorize the countryside as would be the case it's of course our job to destroy him it's a wholly original storyline for the elder or rather Fallout games and by holy original I mean not that at all because really it's the same stuff we see in the Elder Scrolls same stuff we saw in Fallout 4 3 New Vegas and all the other games that are of this ilk the DLC makes for more of the same side quests and automatron sets up a few new dungeon environs littered with the same abandoned buildings robots Raiders as always and puts a new bbeg behind them but just because it's more of the same doesn't mean it's bad the story is reasonably compelling if short and serves as a vessel for the introduction of new robot building Mechanics for the Post DLC game world after we save a caravan from robot Onslaught and overthrow the mechanist this is by the way a process that takes just under 3 hours if reasonably paste and if you're reading all of the lore that's in the terminals we're then granted access to robot schematics for all of the favorites using appropriate perks and supplies we're able to craft robots who can function as settlers or as companions with varying abilities and deadliness and weapons and face lasers and all that good stuff bugs are of course present throughout this DLC it's Bethesda after all and they really shouldn't be given a pass for these especially at this point they're not too bad this time thankfully ran mostly into pathf finding issues with robot Companions and issues where robots would blow their own arms off by using weapons too close to solid objects other than this the new features function fairly well and generally without bugs that break things Beyond repair that said it seems very likely that modders will recreate this functionality in the future and make it available through free mods so if you're really sort of cheap and you'd rather wait and maybe see if modders do it differently or perhaps better you of course forfeit some stuff like that story line but you might get some of the same functionality so it's worth looking around at Nexus mods and seeing what pops up other than this though everything is reasonably put together automatron is bethesda's first DLC for Fallout 4 and it's a solid addition to the game the storyline accompanying atmosphere and the new functions add some variety and offer an enjoyable Al beit a bit short playthrough for a new type of dungeon the larger Edition is robot crafting which provides a lot of options and further specialization for how to to spec out a character since now companions are also customizable and outside of a few minor bugs like the path finding the robot crafting works surprisingly well automatron is certainly fun and at $10 it's worth getting for Die Hard fans who want to see the extra elements and maybe the accompanying side quest for Fallout 4 but for casual players and people who'd rather wait around a bit we would definitely suggest considering waiting until a sale and for the time being just install robot home defense which is a mod available on Nexus mods and check our channel for a Fallout 4 modding overhaul video where we talk about some other robot mods and other types of mods that will expand the experience of course for free so that is all for this quick review of Fallout 4's new automatron DLC our sincere thanks of course to staffer Michael Kars who wrote the review and is published on the website hit the link in the description below for that and also helped with producing the script for the video so as always check out the patreon link the postol video if you want to help us out directly thank you for watching and I'll see you all next timethe first DLC to Fallout 4 Shi last week under bethesda's newly raised season pass pricing but is also available individually of course the first expansion kit is named automatron and is available independently at $10 or as part of that season bayin and as with most games it's effectively a glorified professionally crafted mod that expands Bas play modestly but doesn't go too crazy automatron adds an evil villain sort of a bbeg to the Commonwealth and he's known only as the mechanist equal parts ambiguous evil sounding and very corny If we're honest and he is crafting custom robots to terrorize the countryside as would be the case it's of course our job to destroy him it's a wholly original storyline for the elder or rather Fallout games and by holy original I mean not that at all because really it's the same stuff we see in the Elder Scrolls same stuff we saw in Fallout 4 3 New Vegas and all the other games that are of this ilk the DLC makes for more of the same side quests and automatron sets up a few new dungeon environs littered with the same abandoned buildings robots Raiders as always and puts a new bbeg behind them but just because it's more of the same doesn't mean it's bad the story is reasonably compelling if short and serves as a vessel for the introduction of new robot building Mechanics for the Post DLC game world after we save a caravan from robot Onslaught and overthrow the mechanist this is by the way a process that takes just under 3 hours if reasonably paste and if you're reading all of the lore that's in the terminals we're then granted access to robot schematics for all of the favorites using appropriate perks and supplies we're able to craft robots who can function as settlers or as companions with varying abilities and deadliness and weapons and face lasers and all that good stuff bugs are of course present throughout this DLC it's Bethesda after all and they really shouldn't be given a pass for these especially at this point they're not too bad this time thankfully ran mostly into pathf finding issues with robot Companions and issues where robots would blow their own arms off by using weapons too close to solid objects other than this the new features function fairly well and generally without bugs that break things Beyond repair that said it seems very likely that modders will recreate this functionality in the future and make it available through free mods so if you're really sort of cheap and you'd rather wait and maybe see if modders do it differently or perhaps better you of course forfeit some stuff like that story line but you might get some of the same functionality so it's worth looking around at Nexus mods and seeing what pops up other than this though everything is reasonably put together automatron is bethesda's first DLC for Fallout 4 and it's a solid addition to the game the storyline accompanying atmosphere and the new functions add some variety and offer an enjoyable Al beit a bit short playthrough for a new type of dungeon the larger Edition is robot crafting which provides a lot of options and further specialization for how to to spec out a character since now companions are also customizable and outside of a few minor bugs like the path finding the robot crafting works surprisingly well automatron is certainly fun and at $10 it's worth getting for Die Hard fans who want to see the extra elements and maybe the accompanying side quest for Fallout 4 but for casual players and people who'd rather wait around a bit we would definitely suggest considering waiting until a sale and for the time being just install robot home defense which is a mod available on Nexus mods and check our channel for a Fallout 4 modding overhaul video where we talk about some other robot mods and other types of mods that will expand the experience of course for free so that is all for this quick review of Fallout 4's new automatron DLC our sincere thanks of course to staffer Michael Kars who wrote the review and is published on the website hit the link in the description below for that and also helped with producing the script for the video so as always check out the patreon link the postol video if you want to help us out directly thank you for watching and I'll see you all next time\n"